| Roadside February 24, 2000 Roadside. Stuffed polar bear now soggy and browning. Flowers, shriveled and colorless, still tied to the fence with wire. A message written on cardboard in tatters on the ground. For a time � days and, for some, weeks � cars slowed as they passed the scene of the accident. But now drivers press on, the exhaust of their vehicles adding to the grime which covers everything. |